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administration of affairs was vested till the meeting of parliament. When Morton, after regaining possession of the king and the castle of
Stirling, summoned a convention to be held there, Lindsay and Montrose, as deputies of the discontented nobles, protested that a convention held in an armed fortress could not be regarded as a free parliament. They were imprisoned in their lodgings in Stirling Castle but either Lindsay departed without license, or else his ward was extended to within Fife. In any case, he and Montrose joined the dissenting lords, who, with about seven thousand followers, marched in arms towards Stirling. A compromise, by which Morton was permitted nominally to return to power, was effected, and Lindsay became a member of the new privy council. On 1 Dec. 1579 he was appointed a commissioner for the reformation of the
172:, but the queen's interference prevented the encounter. Lindsay was largely responsible for the hard terms made with the queen. After her surrender, when she understood that she was practically the prisoner of the Confederate lords, she sent for Lindsay, and, giving him her hand, exclaimed, "By the hand which is now in yours I'll have your head for this."
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on 22 December 1568, inviting
Herries to a duel. Herries, who was in London, sent a reply carried by John Hamilton of Broomiehill. Herries replied that Lindsay had accused Mary of the murder, and he did not know if Lindsay had been involved and had not said so; Herries would fight with Lindsay if he
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There is no evidence that
Lindsay was aware of any scheme to murder Darnley, and perhaps, like his kinsman Atholl, he deeply resented Darnley's murder. Such resentment may partly account for the prominent part he played in proceedings against Mary. He signed at Stirling the bond against Bothwell. At
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Lindsay played a less conspicuous part during the remainder of Morton's regency. In March 1578, he combined with other noblemen to effect Morton's overthrow. It was to
Lindsay and Ruthven that the castle of Edinburgh was surrendered on 1 April 1578, and he was chosen one of the council in whom the
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for the defenders of the castle, from her dowry out of France. Shortly afterwards he was taken prisoner, but on 12 July he purchased his liberty. A few months later a party of horsemen from
Edinburgh went to his estate of the Byres and seized a large number of his cattle, but on the following day,
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was in progress. Knox, whom he visited on his deathbed, advised him to have no dealings with the "damnable house of the castle." Lindsay followed this advice until the conclusion of the siege; but after its surrender he made unsuccessful efforts to induce Morton to spare the life of his old
265:, he supported the king's party. On 16 June 1571 the forces under him and Morton slew Gavin Hamilton, commendator of Kilwinning, and took Lord Home and others prisoners. On the last day of the same month, he also intercepted at Wemyss a quantity of gold sent by order of Queen Mary with
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James, 7th Lord
Lindsay like his father, was a zealous supporter of Protestantism. He was chiefly responsible for the Protestant tumult in the Tolbooth, 17 December 1596, and was fined in large sums of money. He died 5 November 1601. By his wife Euphemia Leslie, eldest daughter of
89:. On 27 April he subscribed the band to "defend the liberty of the Evangell of Christ", and he also subscribed the "Book of Discipline". He was one of those deputed by the General Assembly on 28 May 1561 to suppress "Idolatrie and all monuments thereof," and when
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wrote to Cecil from St. Andrews on 25 April 1562, "It would well have contented your honour, to have seen the queen and the Master of
Lindsay shoot at the butts against the Earl of Moray (as Lord James had become) and one of the ladies." On the rebellion of the
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During the absence of the Regent at the parliament at
Stirling, Lindsay on 23 August was chosen lieutenant in Leith. On 31 August a powerful attack was made upon him, but he drove the enemy back to Edinburgh. In 1572 the king's party elected him
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during the queen's progress in the north of
Scotland in the following September, Lindsay and Kirkcaldy of Grange were, with their followers, specially summoned to her assistance; and Lindsay seems to have had a considerable share in winning the
348:, he had two sons — John, 8th Lord Lindsay, and Robert, 9th Lord Lindsay — and three daughters: Jean, married to Rohert Lundin of Balgony; Catherine, married to John Lundin of Lundin; and Helen, married to John, 2nd Lord Cranston.
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on the right to the sheriffdom of Fife. Rothes obtained the sheriffdom, though on 12 January 1565 he agreed that
Lindsay should be exempted from its jurisdiction, Lindsay was never reconciled to the loss of the office.
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with a band of armed followers. When Mary escaped to Dunbar, Lindsay fled to England with the other contrivers of Rizzio's murder, but the queen pardoned him, Morton, and others shortly before the murder of Darnley.
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After the assassination of Regent Moray in January 1570, Lord Lindsay assisted in carrying the corpse of the Regent Moray at his funeral at St Giles, Edinburgh. Subsequently, during the
365:, vols. i-iii.; Calendar State Papers, For. Ser.. reign of Elizabeth; Cal. State Papers. Scott. Ser.; Histories of Calderwood, Buchanan, Spotiswood, and Keith; Knox's Works, ed. Laing;
179:, and they and the lord of the castle, Robert Douglas, Lindsay's father-in-law, were jointly made her guardians. On 24 July 1567 Lindsay went to obtain her signature to the
183:. According to a later Catholic account, Lindsay told her "that if she did not sign the document she would compel them to cut her throat, however unwilling they might be."
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on 15 June 1567 he asked the Confederate lords to permit him to accept Bothwell's challenge to single combat "in regard of his nearness of blood to the defunct king." The
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in 1582, and after the king's rescue at St. Andrews fled with other raiders to England. On his return he took part in the Gowrie conspiracy in 1584, and was committed to
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declared their oath that Mary had "resigned willingly without compulsion." Subsequently, Lindsay was one of the staunchest supporters of Regent Moray. In the forged
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he is represented as saying: "My lord, ye know of ould that I was moir rude than wyse. I can nought gyve you a verie wyse counsell, but I love you weill aneuche."
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against Moray he "accompanied the king in leading the battle." The subsequent policy of the queen made him a zealous supporter of the plot for the murder of
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Lindsay was specially devoted to Lord James, who was his brother-in-law, and through his mediation Lindsay and the queen were soon reconciled.
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insisted, and would happily fight with any of Lindsay's allies if they cared to write to him. Herries copied the cartel and his reply to the
300:. He loyally adhered to Morton till the latter's fall in 1580, when he retired to his own house much discontented. He was involved in the
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Being related to Darnley, Lindsay, in opposition to Moray and the stricter Reformers, favoured Darnley's marriage to the queen. In the
340:, and two daughters: Margaret, married to James Leslie, Master of Rothes, and Maulslie, married to William Ballingall of Ballingull.
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wrote that Mary was told that Lindsay was in a "boasting humour" before his arrival, and that she signed the document without demur.
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arrived from France in August 1561, and made known her intention of having mass said in her private chapel at
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asserts that he "drove the chaplain from the chapel and overthrew all the memorials," but Knox states that
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401:(Wood), i. 385-6; Pedigree of the Lindsays, by W. A. Lindsay, in the College of Arms.
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Buchanan, bk. xvi.; Knox, ii. 275: ancient ballad on the battle
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in November obtained his release. He died on 11 December 1589.
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presented him with the famous two-handed sword of his ancestor
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where it was read aloud. On the 29 July, immediately before
82:, and killed in single combat the French Captain La Bastie.
33:, who died in December 1563, and Helen Stewart, daughter of
573:(Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982), p. 10, citing Calderwood,
146:, and on the night of the murder he accompanied Morton to
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kept the door and prevented Lindsay entering the chapel.
26:, (1521–1589), Scottish courtier and Confederate lord.
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175:Lindsay, along with Lord Ruthven, conveyed Mary to
320:By his wife Euphemia Douglas, eldest daughter of
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639:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
590:, p. 297; Knox; ii. 561; James Melville,
793:, p. 167; Calderwood, iii. 413; Moysie,
287:companion-in-arms, Kirkcaldy of Grange.
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921:People of the Scottish Marian Civil War
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641:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1877), pp. 531–4.
427:Calendar State Papers, Foreign, 1558–9
389:, Bannatyne Club; Richard Bannatyne's
16:Scottish courtier and Confederate lord
488:Calendar State Papers, For. Ser. 1562
103:Lord James (afterwards Earl of Moray)
665:, vol. 1. 38; Calderwood, vol.2, 516
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558:Cal. State Papers, For. Ser. 1566–8
556:Bedford to Cecil, 30 Dec. 1566, in
509:Cal. State Papers, For. Ser. 1563–4
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393:, Bannatyne Club; Lord Lindsay's
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244:, wrote a challenge or
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170:Archibald Bell-the-Cat
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781:Calderwood, iii. 235
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280:Provost of Edinburgh
242:Kingston upon Thames
196:James VI of Scotland
91:Mary, Queen of Scots
60:Scottish Reformation
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768:Richard Bannatyne,
700:History of Scotland
586:Hume of Godscroft,
521:Reg. P. C. Scotland
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612:Joseph Stevenson,
462:Life of Queen Mary
373:, Bannatyne Club;
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